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We’re a couple of days late commenting on this story from Sunday’s Los Angeles Times, but when I saw it I immediately thought of the OC Register’s editorial writer Brian Calle who laments the $6 million the California Teacher’s Association annually spends on lobbying as atrocious. Calle, in his anti-union editorials, needs to first look…

A hat tip to the LA Times for this post about how the California Fair Political Practices Commission wants to require candidates for political office to disclose payments to bloggers to post positive pieces for a candidate or attack sites to tear down other candidates. From the story: Alarmed that political groups are secretly funding bloggers…

The Daily Pilot reports that Huntington Beach Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher is one of the members of Congress who personally benefits — financially — by holding his office beyond his Congressional salary through extended benefits to family members. From the story: “Family Affair,” the report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, D.C., reviewed…

Flash Report publisher Jon Fleischman is the subject of a page one story in today’s LA Times. And while I wished writer James Rainey took it a bit further, readers of this blog won’t be surprised by anything Fleischman had to say. Notably, Fleischman says he’s “fair and biased.” We disagree on the “fair part.” …

Andrew Breitbart is dead and allow us to take the high road and express our sympathies to his wife and four children who now must go on without a husband and father. The local newspapers have considerably different accounts of Mr. Breitbart with the OC Register taking the apporach he uncovered government corruption and media…

It’s remarkable when, even in a down economy, that a community that values education can make up where our tax dollars fall short. And thanks to the Irvine Public Schools Foundation, the community raised $500,000 in 2011 which will be matched by the City of Irvine dollar for dollar. Here’s the press release: Irvine Public…

The “Tweets on a Train” story featuring an overheard cell phone conversation of AD-69 candidate Michele Martinez by investigative journalist Bob Salladay has gone viral being picked by by the Sacramento Bee, a variety of technology/social media web sites, and even the Poynter Institute’s web site read by journalists all over the country. It’s spawned…